Sure, watches are nice and all -- but do you really need one? No, not as long as Steve Inskeep still has a job.

• Using a sundial
• Checking your cell phone
• Asking the lady at Wendy's
• Looking at the bottom left-hand corner of the Today show
• Leaving yourself a voice mail
• Noting how open that flower is
• Calling time and temperature (only applicable before 1991)
• Counting the rings on a tree
• Measuring the length of your beard
• Waiting for the town crier
• It's time for Final Jeopardy!
• Observing the descent of autumn's last leaf
• Assessing how pretty that woman over there is looking
• No, the other one
• Waiting for Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep to tell you
• Geology